Milford Names Replacement On Joint Sewer Authority Board

January 17, 1985|The Morning Call

Thomas Courduff, a licensed waterworks and sewer treatment plant operator in Warrington Township, was appointed to a one-year term on the Milford- Trumbauersville Sewer Authority Tuesday night by Milford Township supervisors.

Courduff, a 13-year resident of Milford, is also a master plumber. He replaces Phil Baney, who resigned.

Barin Construction Co. officials got some static when they asked the supervisors to sign a waiver that would allow them to subdivide a 37.8-acre parcel on Old Bethlehem Pike and Rosedale Road into six lots. Three of them would be more than 10 acres and wouldn't require public sewers.

A public sewer line runs along Old Bethlehem Pike where Lots 1, 2 and 3 would front. These lots are 1.1 acres and 1.2 acres and would be served by the public sewer in front of them.

The other three lots each would exceed the 10-acre minimum for rural residents' lots, which do not require public sewers. They are at the rear of the tract.

Barin's counsel, R. Kirkland McQuiddy, said the waiver was being requested because Henry Swiantecke, sewage enforcement officer for the Bucks County Department of Health, recommended the entire 37.8-acre tract be connected to public sewers because it has frontage bordering on a sewer line.

Milford-Trumbauersville Sewer Authority recommended that Lot 4, which has a small portion of frontage next to the line, also should be sewered.

The supervisors directed McQuiddy to go back to the Department of Health for clarification whether Lots 4, 5 and 6 must be sewered since they are at the rear of the tract and meet rural residential requirements.

Supervisors Jack Blough and Les Manns declined to amend the township's sewer plan to allow the rural residential lots until clarifications are submitted to them by the county health department and the sewer authority.

Appearing with McQuiddy to argue for the waiver were Upper Bucks real estate agent Larry Sommers and surveyor Al Werner.

The tract owner is Katie Roth. The land is expected to be purchased by Barin Construction.